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evetstech

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Does anyone know how long it typically takes for them to send it out? I'm not in a rush or anything, just curious. Winblows has screwed me over for the last time (windows got currupt, couldn't fix it, had to reformat and lose all my important crap :(..). And for starting out in Linux, how is the learning curve?
 
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P0ldy

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At least a month. They ship from Switzerland. If you really want to get started now, go download a copy or do a net-install of a bunch of distros. If you aren't immediately turned off, you'll try a lot of distros when starting out. (And you could've saved your important crap with a Linux live cd, did you not think of that?)

The learning curve depends on you. If you're willing to read when you run into a problem, it's not a difficult transition.
 
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I picked up Ubuntu pretty quickly. I still have some stuff to learn though. I need better media players, that's for sure. And I need to learn how to modify the selections in the main panel (top of the screen). It's easy to do in KDE but not in gnome... :(

ps - I posted this from my laptop that has Ubuntu 5.04 on it.
 
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drag

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Originally posted by: Megatomic
I picked up Ubuntu pretty quickly. I still have some stuff to learn though. I need better media players, that's for sure. And I need to learn how to modify the selections in the main panel (top of the screen). It's easy to do in KDE but not in gnome... :(

ps - I posted this from my laptop that has Ubuntu 5.04 on it.
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What do you mean 'modify the selections'?

You mean move around the items and remove/add different applets (small taskbar embedded monitors/programs/eye candy) on the panel?

If you right click on them and then uncheck "lock to panel". By default Gnome generally has them locked so that new users don't accidently remove something they need.

As for media players, there are many many to choose from. Check out http://freshmeat.net/ for many different options. Maybe you can narrow down the selection by telling what your using and what you want to be different about it/what features you want. :)
 
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ShaneDOTM

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It takes forever. If your worried about the gnome, why not download kubuntu as it is ubuntu with KDE desktop which is quite nice. The learning curve for some of the newer linux distros is actually quite short for basic usage. It's when you want to start doing the geek stuff that it gets a little complicated.
 
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minofifa

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I disagree.
I gave fedora core 4 a lot of my time and still got nowhere with it. My needs for a computer a bit specialized and i just couldn't get it done on linux. Perhaps if i have more time one day, and future distros come out that are even more dummy-friendly, i will try it again. as far as windows, XP has been rock solid for me. I don't know how people corrupt this and that, as the OS seems pretty stable to me.
 
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daniel49

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if its your first ever look at linux you will probably be lost for a while,
give yourself at least a few months, join a few forums, and get ready to google a lot.
Its kinda like making yourself learn the metric system, there is a natural resistance because your so used to using feet and inches.
I think mine took at least a couple months to get here so I used the time to wade around in fedora and try to get used to the water. (I had a free disk that came with a book i bought.)

good luck:)

 
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its usally a month for me, everytime i get the package, i always forget i ordered the cd's and then im like " wtf, is this a bomb!? "

ubuntu is awesome btw. great distro.
 
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I have been using Ubuntu for about seven months now. I switched from Slackware because I wanted the power of apt-get, and a disro that offered fairly up to date software. Ubuntu has been just that and is perfect for my day to day computing needs. I use Abiword for word processing, Firefox for browsing, X-chat for IRC, Gaim for IM, MPD for music, K3b for CD/DVD burning, and myriad command line tools for basically every other task.

The Ubuntu Forums are a great resource and #ubuntu on freenode is usually willing to help. Enjoy.
 
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Tbirdkid

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Ubuntu is the best iso for the newb. It teaches you to learn the cli and it also has a great package management system in apt. Take your time with it... if you want to play games that will take some time... but it will eventually work. It just takes learning how to use cedega... and or wine or just compiling it yourself. Good luck.
 
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Got UBUNTU in the mail, darn things won't install on a newly formatted HDD.
Guess I'll try another linux distro.
 
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hater2win

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remember you need a linux ext2 partition. or is it ext3? i used ext3 when i had slax. if your "newly formatted HD" is ntfs... well obviously...

That would be almost as funny as that time that I forgot to assign a file system to my HD and wondered why it wasn't showing up... lol. That was 5 days of scratching my head that could have been easily prevented... but will never be forgotten...

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Between the Ubunto Live DVD and Knoppix I have been steadily learning Linus fundamentals.

Also Found a Great guide at tldp.org that teaches the basic Command Line and help systems

I wouldn't recomend Installing Linux right off, My ignorance of GRUB caused me a blow of my XP Install..:( ahhh
 
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evetstech

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Originally posted by: Oakenfold
Got UBUNTU in the mail, darn things won't install on a newly formatted HDD.
Guess I'll try another linux distro.
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I read that you can't use NTFS formats, and you need to have unpartitioned space if you have any other os installed.
 
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evetstech

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Oh, and BTW, I'm dling it ATM. The CD's I requested were the ones I was gonna distribute to a few of my friends.
 
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Originally posted by: drag
Originally posted by: Megatomic
I picked up Ubuntu pretty quickly. I still have some stuff to learn though. I need better media players, that's for sure. And I need to learn how to modify the selections in the main panel (top of the screen). It's easy to do in KDE but not in gnome... :(

ps - I posted this from my laptop that has Ubuntu 5.04 on it.
Click to expand...

What do you mean 'modify the selections'?

You mean move around the items and remove/add different applets (small taskbar embedded monitors/programs/eye candy) on the panel?

If you right click on them and then uncheck "lock to panel". By default Gnome generally has them locked so that new users don't accidently remove something they need.

As for media players, there are many many to choose from. Check out http://freshmeat.net/ for many different options. Maybe you can narrow down the selection by telling what your using and what you want to be different about it/what features you want. :)
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What I meant by modify the selections was that I want to add other programs to the list of apps in Office (for example). Ubuntu comes with OOo 1.1.3 and I want to replace it with OOo 2.0 beta. I can install it but I can't put links to the apps in the list of Office apps in the panel. Did that make sense? My gnome vocabulary is weak still, I don't know what all the components of the GUI are called yet.

And thanks for the links drag and OffTopic. I'll check that stuff out tomorrow. I'm at work and away from my laptop.
 
Oakenfold

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Originally posted by: evetstech
Originally posted by: Oakenfold
Got UBUNTU in the mail, darn things won't install on a newly formatted HDD.
Guess I'll try another linux distro.
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I read that you can't use NTFS formats, and you need to have unpartitioned space if you have any other os installed.
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Wow, wish they woulda had a warning label on the cd or something heh.
thx for the tip!
 
Nothinman

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Wow, wish they woulda had a warning label on the cd or something heh.
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If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. NTFS is a proprietary filesystem that MS won't release good docs on, infact you can't even write to NTFS filesystems safely in Linux yet so there's no way you could install onto it. You also can't install onto a FAT filesystem, but that's because it dosen't support proper security. But you can read/write to FAT filesystems just fine in Linux.
 
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Oakenfold

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Originally posted by: Nothinman
Wow, wish they woulda had a warning label on the cd or something heh.
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If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. NTFS is a proprietary filesystem that MS won't release good docs on, infact you can't even write to NTFS filesystems safely in Linux yet so there's no way you could install onto it. You also can't install onto a FAT filesystem, but that's because it dosen't support proper security. But you can read/write to FAT filesystems just fine in Linux.
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Ahh, you don't know what you don't know.
For those of us somehwhat apparently less knowledgeable with operating systems/file structure would have no idea, bottom line I should have read up more before trying to install.
;)
 
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